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Record Nr.

UNINA9910345137303321

Autore

Lawler Peter Augustine

Titolo

American views of liberty / / Peter Augustine Lawler [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Peter Lang, c1997

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 183 p. )

Collana

Major concepts in politics and political theory American views of liberty

Major concepts in politics and political theory, , 1059-3535 ; ; vol. 5

Disciplina

323.44

Soggetti

Liberty

Right and left (Political science)

Political science - United States

Liberty - United States

Political science

Law, Politics & Government

Human Rights

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

; 1. Theology and America's Liberal Democracy -- ; 2. Classical Ethics, Jefferson's Christian Epicureanism, and American Morality -- ; 3. Bloom's Idiosyncratic History of the University -- ; 4. Reflections on Bloom and His Critics -- ; 5. The Problem of Democratic Individualism -- ; 6. How Education Became Illiberal -- ; 7. Fukuyama Versus the End of History -- ; 8. The Federalist's Hostility to Leadership and the Crisis of the Contemporary Presidency -- ; 9. The Constitutional Presidency of George Bush -- ; 10. In Search of American Conservatism -- ; 11. Tocqueville on Administration and for Administrators.